music+life
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“Sin Perreo No Hay Revolución”: Music as Resistance to Racialised Realities in Puerto Rico
Latin American music has asserted itself into the mainstream, with its heavy dembow beats and accents that the ‘Real Academia’ would turn their nose at. Labelled as ‘ignorant’ music, the journey for reggaeton to hit radio stations has been a struggle for racialised bodies to make themselves visible. Though the ‘objects’ I have chosen are…
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DANCE WAX REVIEWS
articles I have written for Dance Wax:
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“I’M JUST SITTIN’ HERE”; painting an image of britain through its most honest storyteller [Dizzee Rascal]
Along the red brick walls of your local neighbourhood are children sitting bored out of their minds. Every place that could be a park is an industrial estate, the schools use car parks as a playground, and what kid has a toy? When every adult is working, the unsupervised world comes to ‘life’ – but…
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MASSIVE music zine / rave bible
Some of the music zines from the 90s live on through web archives. My favourite of these is Massive, produced in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It documented and fed the rave scene in the midwest, with stories about local parties to interviews with disc jockeys (and whatever else they wished to share). Visually, it’s very telling of…
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AFX RADIO LONDON; All my reviews
All the reviews I have written for AFX Radio London; highlighting up and coming musicians by reviewing their singles, EPs and albums.
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BOGDAN RACZYNSKI AND LOVE [FOR EVERYONE]
I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME CRY ANYMORE. Bogdan Raczynski’s album cover for his album myloveilove is an almost disturbingly personal image of him laying beside you, with a pink hue overlaid. It sets the tone for his 17 track masterpiece, which explores heartbreak through his out of tune singing and accordions and synths…
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BE A BODY
Whilst I let my body sink into the sofa cushions, I listened to Grimes’ 2012 Visions album for the thousandth time. Track 8 starts to play as I become intimately fused to the furniture, “Be a Body”. Unable to move, my mind spirals as I question what it even means to be a body. Grimes…
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techno as the soundtrack for a sexually repressed generation
Bodies drenched in sweat will grind against each other when under a strobe light, whether the setting is a dingy basement or an abandoned factory. The music allows us to express our deepest desires with our bodies, becoming almost primitive. Yet electronic music’s intimate technological relationship has impacted how we interact with the subculture. Technology…
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